Fensom v. Rabb

Russell L. Rabb instituted this action of trespass on the case in assumpsit, alleging misrepresentation of a material fact by defendant, John F. Fensom, which induced him to purchase the latter’s business, and that as a result of such misrepresentation he had been damaged in the sum of $25,000. To a judgment for $9,000, entered on the verdict of the jury, defendant obtained this writ of error.

John F. Fensom, hereinafter designated “defendant,” 68 years of age, for more than twenty-five years had been con ducting, in Richmond,' Virginia, a manufacturers’ agency, under the name of John Fensom…